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Inhabits India. — Lady Impey. In another of these were six or 

 seven spots of crimson on the middle of the wing, instead of three. 



A. — Length eight inches. Head, throat, neck behind, and upper 

 half of the back black; whole of the wing coverts, and outer part of 

 the wing, as far as the middle, also black ; base of the second quills, 

 for three-fourths of the length, crimson, the rest black ; base half of 

 the greater quills crimson, the ends black ; on the whole forming an 

 irregular large patch on the middle of the wing ; under parts from 

 the throat to vent, and above from the middle of the back to the 

 rump, crimson, also the upper and under tail coverts; two middle 

 tail feathers black, the others black at the base and end, the rest of 

 the length crimson ; but the outmost feather is wholly crimson ; tail 

 rounded at the end. 



The female has not the black head. In that sex the forehead, 

 all the under parts of the body, rump, middle of the wing, and the 

 outer tail feathers are yellow ; upper part of the head, neck, and 

 the back, fine blue grey ; two middle tail feathers black, edged 

 yellow, base of the others black, the rest of their length yellow ; 

 wings, except the yellow patch in the middle of the quills, black. 



Inhabits India, also Ceylon, called there Kali a Dombura; at 

 Johanabad, Sat Sakheykapu. — From Sir J. Anstruther's drawings. 



B. — In the same drawings I observe one considerably smaller, 

 having the appearance of an immature male bird : in this the head, 

 and neck behind, to middle of the back are black, lower part of the 

 back pale red ; upper tail coverts, and all beneath, from the throat, 

 white, tinged with red on the breast ; wings brown, but some of the 

 second quills are black on the inner half; the rest of the middle of 

 the wing white ; tail marked as in the adult male, but white where 

 in the other it is crimson. 



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